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Social Welfare Act, 1979

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Number 8 of 1979

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1979

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Old age pensions (new rates, extension of means limits).

3.

Unemployment assistance (new rates).

4.

Calculation of means of certain persons for purposes of unemployment assistance.

5.

Alternative method of calculation of means of certain persons for purposes of unemployment assistance.

6.

Widows' (non-contributory) pensions, deserted wife's allowance, social assistance allowance for unmarried mothers and prisoner's wife's allowance (new rates, extension of means limits).

7.

Widows' (non-contributory) pensions, deserted wife's allowance, social assistance allowance for unmarried mothers and prisoner's wife's allowance (abolition of upper age limit).

8.

Prisoner's wife's allowance (extension of payment period).

9.

Orphans' (non-contributory) pensions (new rates and extension of means limit).

10.

Single woman's allowance (new rates and extension of means limit).

11.

Supplementary welfare allowance (new rates).

12.

Discontinuance of old age (care) allowance.

13.

Increase in means excluded in calculation of old age pension.

14.

Increase in means excluded in calculation of widow's (non-contributory) pension.

15.

Repeal of rule relating to calculation of widow's means.

16.

Increase in certain exclusions in calculation of means of certain persons.

17.

Parts of increases of certain pensions not to be reckoned as means.

18.

Exclusion of domestic dwellings and farm buildings in calculation of certain means.

19.

Children's allowances (new rates).

20.

Social insurance benefits (new rates).

21.

Unemployment benefit (increase of certain rates).

22.

Extension of period of unemployment benefit for certain married women.

23.

Maternity allowance (removal of restriction on payment).

24.

Widow's (contributory) pension (extension of entitlement).

25.

Occupational injuries benefits (new rates).

26.

Occupational injuries (increase for pensioners living alone).

27.

Old age pension—notification of increase of means.

28.

Short title, construction and collective citation.

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Number 8 of 1979

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1979

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE OLD AGE PENSIONS ACTS, 1908 TO 1978, THE UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACTS, 1933 TO 1978, THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS ACTS, 1935 TO 1978, THE SOCIAL WELFARE (CHILDREN'S ALLOWANCES) ACTS, 1944 TO 1977, THE SOCIAL WELFARE (SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCES) ACT, 1975 , AND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, 1952 TO 1978. [24th March, 1979]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: